Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1887-01-29
PAre1MAL AnVl.-.

a Father TnlE with ISIS Hopeful
l,vrlyu-Ncar.Hld boy.
NV dear 10y, This Is your twelfth
birthday. auu to commemorate the hap
py event want to give you somryholr.
some advice
have observed 'hal physically and
mentally yoH arv ripmuE under the
democratic influences of 81 FREE school,
and wish 10 encourage you in tbs, at
tention to study II it were not for
studiou ,ness on thoport Of our boys this
great country would be destitute of a
legislative Congress. ufcourso, / don't
intend to say how much better it would
be without @ Congress, for in that J
should be depressing,
But concerning school I have no
doubt that YOU can whip the teacher,
should occasion demand, but don't do
lit Content yourself with assuring the
other boys OF the fact, and learn so let
him have his way, u, bowever, you
should some time be determined to TEN
der him a chast Sement, choose some
boy whom you d.sl,ka0nd persuade him
to DO il: the result COuld not be other
than gratifying.
You are now approaching q crisis in
life. At your age a boy begins to grow
in love with himself aud at eighteen he
has what cold, unlclMg world calls
the big-head trust 10 you 10 bc rid OF
il before you are twenty-oae, but ii not
it win by that time have bgcomo
chronic, and You will find that an Uu.
sympathetic public WILL at every OPP
portunity, taku occasion to punch it.
, At your time of life men, things and
books are in league TO take you through
a systematic course Of lies, Some day
YOU viii t,tink that home and the old
folks are slow, and some night in thg
still watches, you VIII gOt up from q
slGepless pillow, tic few clothes in q
handkerchief and start out to SEQ the
world.
Now, don't take the clothes, and don't
come back until you gat q good look at
that great old fraud you have been read.
ing and dreaming about.
! mention the clothes, because you
will be likely to take clean ones, and
win so muSs them in your travels that
your mother VII have them 90 wash
when you come back. But l want YOU
to go when you got ready--I wouldnf
give q copper for boy who hadn't at
some time, taken it into his head TO ruE
away.
You have often expressed the wish &
be man. but don't hurCy old Father
Time His knees are shaEy and h's
limbs are Rheumatic, but his gait Is de
ceptve. BE q boy ~ long as Won ear
and when You are q man, cont let tn,
public seq that you have forgotten al
about It,
Try TO be sensible, and. If any thing
conservative. but let man and boy cal
YOU plain Bll all your lie.
Have hoad Of your own. IL vol
tlOn't believe the sun Is stationary ans
that the world turns, say so. You WI
be respected, even while You are aske'
for your proof
Try TO bear with the world, ~ 70,
will be obi g2d to leave It pretty mUcl
as y0u found t. Remember il hai
bccn running along IA about the sam
groove for several thousand years
and that the public would he likely Il
discourage any attempt at a rad:ca
change.
Yes, put up with it, my boy. Som
cay when YOU are o man, and feel com
peeled to fog a boy Of about YOU
present build, think i. over, and ii yoi
have not found nay advice to b. for III,
best, you may conclude that year tather
was an ass -- Detroit Free Press,